Daryna Antoniuk reports: Pro-Palestinian hackers say they breached dozens of Israeli entities amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which has also extended into cyberspace. A group calling itself Cyber Toufan said it launched an operation against Israel at the end of November, promising to publish leaked information from hacked websites every day throughout the month….
Anna Jaques Hospital’s computer system compromised by cyberattack
Dave Rogers reports: Days after what was called a cyberattack shut down Anna Jaques Hospital’s health record system on Christmas, hospital administrators are saying little about what caused the massive failure or whether the problem has been remedied. “Upon discovery, we immediately secured our environment and engaged cybersecurity professionals to assist in the investigation. While…
After cyber attack, New York hospitals find stolen patient info stored in Massachusetts, look for its return
Jeff Cole reports: Nearly four months after a cyber attack, Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center and Carthage Area Hospital have made progress in learning what stolen data may have been leaked, and where it was being stored. Now the hospitals have filed legal paperwork to get that data back. […] The hospitals and FBI have discovered where…
4 arrested in Indian Council of Medical Research data leak case now booked in separate incident of ‘data brokering’
Bismee Taskin reports: Weeks after Delhi Police arrested four men suspected of being involved in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data leakage case reported two months ago, the four have been booked in a separate case of “data brokering”, ThePrint has learnt. As reported by ThePrint earlier, police had initially suspected the accused of trying…
Mortgage firm LoanCare warns 1.3 million people of data breac
Bill Toulas reports: Mortgage servicing company LoanCare is warning 1,316,938 borrowers across the U.S. that their sensitive information was exposed in a data breach at its parent company, Fidelity National Financial. LoanCare is a sub-servicing and interim sub-servicing provider and a significant player in the mortgage servicing sector, handling approximately $390 billion in balances from…
Attorney General James Secures $300,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for Failing to Protect Patient Data
December 27 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $300,000 from The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited their website. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that the hospital used advertising tools on its website that collected and shared private and personal…